LETTER TO THE EDITOR: Round and round I go

Saturday

Nov 18, 2017 at 5:00 AM

I was recently criticized for offering what was called “circular speech patterns.” Most things are intertwined, including education and intellect, but we will leave that for another conversation. So let’s dive a little deeper into my intertwining and, as it was called, “circular speech patterns.”

Government takes 10 percent to 15 percent of corn production out of the food chain to make ethanol as a gasoline supplement, reducing fossil fuel usage. This leads to higher priced feed, because of a higher demand, for cattle and chickens. That leads to higher prices of those two products at the grocery store since Obama with his liberal left thoughts was elected. You have been to the grocery store to verify this increase? If not, ask anyone else!

Government pays farmers not to plant fields that could have been used to plant corn, allowing the farmer to farm and taxpayers to save their tax dollars. These government-paid empty fields not only could be used to lower prices across the board if planted but are contributing to the rise of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere because there is nothing there to filter CO2 out. Is this caused by nature or is it a man-made situation? There is only one possible answer to that question.

The liberal left’s correction for these government-created higher prices is raising the minimum wage as an offset. This again adds to the cost of goods and the inflation that we as a society have already experienced. Has the liberal left solved the problem or contributed to what they created?

The Bible states in a nonreligious message to beware of those you follow!